Wordpress Custom Permalinks Plugin Issue

[ec1976]

Hello,

I installed this plugin and I'm having trouble making it work. I'm new to WordPress so was hoping someone can help me out.

I'm looking to set up the following pages for example
http://testsite.azurewebsites.net/Services/Services1
http://testsite.azurewebsites.net/Services/Services2

I do the following steps

1. Add New Page
2. Enter the following title "Services1"
3. Enter the following text in the Permalink textbox "Services/Services1" replacing the default text "?page_id=140"
4. Then I publish the page.
5. This automatically updates the "Custom Fields" section below. The name is set to "custom_permalink" and the value is set to "Services/Services1".
6. Then I "view page" but get a 404 error. The url is "http://testsite.azurewebsites.net/Services/Services1"

Some additional info

1. 1. WordPress version 9.8.3
2. Settings - Permalinks is set to "post name"
3. Custom Permalinks version 0.7.18

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[mosquitohawk]

Is your .htaccess file writeable by the server?  If not your permalink (and plugin) settings won't work.

[ec1976]

Hi Marty,

Thanks for your response.  I've passed this over to our admin for him to check.  I'll post again pending the result from that.

[ec1976]

Hi Marty,

Back again.  I've been working on this issue again this morning and now have admin access.  A few new things have been discovered.  This site is running on Azure and IIS so it seems that the .htaccess file is not needed but instead uses the web.config instead.  I've tried updating that per this article but it still doesn't work.  I think this might be more for blogs though rather than the plugin I've tried.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

[mosquitohawk]

I don't host my WordPress sites on IIS but according to their site, you have three choices for custom permalinks on IIS-

Microsoft IIS 7+ web server with the URL Rewrite 1.1+ module and PHP 5 running as FastCGI
Microsoft IIS 6+ using ASAPI_Rewrite (free for single-site server, $$ for multi-site server)
Microsoft IIS 6+ using Ionic ISAPI Rewriting Filter (IIRF) (free for single-site or multi-site server)

I got the above from this page.

[ec1976]

Thanks again Marty,

I've a couple of questions before I go ahead and implement those changes.

• Will this work for pages and not just blog posts?  I'm more concerned about the pages right now.
• Also will I just be able to use the Permalinks section in Settings or will I need to install the Custom Permalinks plugin to be able to produce page urls such as
  companyname/services/oracle/admin
  companyname/services/oracle/dev
  companyname/services/SAP/admin

Thanks again for all your help.  I really appreciate it

[mosquitohawk]

It should work with posts, pages, custom post types, etc without needing that plugin.

Good luck!

[ec1976]

Thanks Marty,

Worked perfectly